The ygeW encoded protein from Escherichia coli is a knotted ancestral catabolic transcarbamylase

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2327-2334

  Li, Yongdong ^a,b   Jin, Zhongmin ^c   Yu, Xiaolin ^a   Allewell, Norma M ^d   Tuchman, Mendel ^a   Shi, Dashuang ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GANNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Knotted protein; Purine degradation pathway; Transcarbamylase; ygeW gene

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN YGEW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CATABOLISM; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

CARBOXYL AND CARBAMOYL TRANSFERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79958770988     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.23043     Document Type: Article

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